The InterLibrary Loans online order form is currently not allowing academic staff to sign in. We apologise for this delay and ITS is working on a resolution.

You can order ILL's by calling the Interlibrary Loans unit between 9-5 weekdays on 8344 5388.

Or you can email details of the item you want ordered directly to ill-library@unimelb.edu.au

02 Jun 2014

Open Access Week 2013 -- Open Access Week is being celebrated by libraries and other organisations worldwide during 21-27 October 2013.

The term 'Open Access' refers to making scholarly literature and research data freely available to anyone who might wish to use it. Open Access is seen by many as a tool for increasing research impact and promoting community engagement with universities.

Earlier this year the two major Australian funding agencies NHMRC and ARC released policies that require some publications arising from research that they have funded are made available in open access repositories. Researchers need to make themselves familiar with these compliance requirements. The University has developed a program of works to respond to these mandates and more information on compliance and the program of works can be found at: http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/oacp13/

Academic staff and research students at the University of Melbourne have access to a range of services and tools relating to Open Access publishing:

Subject Experience Surveys (SES) are now open for most Semester 2 subjects. The standard period for the SES this semester is from October 14 until November 3. Students, we are very interested in your feedback and encourage you to complete the SES for each of your subjects. Each one should take about 5 minutes - but if you have more detailed feedback, we very much appreciate your time in providing this to us in the comments section.

Staff, please continue to encourage your students to complete the SES for your subject.

Semester 2 Subject Experience Surveys open next week for the majority of subjects. The standard survey period is from Monday October 14th to Sunday November 3rd, though there will be some variation between subjects. LMS subjects should currently contain feedback on the survey outcomes from the previous cohort of students, as letting current students know that the comments of previous students have been noted is expected to encourage participation in the survey. The more participation, the more information we have about our subjects.

The Baillieu Library Print Collection now has even more works of art available to view online thanks to the University Digitisation Centre.

The Centre has been hard at work digitising thousands of prints (due to copyright restrictions not all works are able to be displayed). Currently there are over 6,000 woodcuts, etchings, engravings, mezzotints, lithographs and drawings to see.

Collections digitised include Harold Wright’s prints which reflect the director of Colnagi’s interest in the early 20th century etching revival. Also on view are Dr Pierre Gorman’s array of images depicting the University of Cambridge, and recent acquisitions to the collection.

Artists of newly uploaded works include well-known practitioners such as Giovanni Battista Piranesi, James McNeill Whistler, Samuel Palmer and George Cruikshank.

Interlibrary Loans software is being moved to Single Sign On authentication.

This means library users will use their central University of Melbourne email username and password when accessing their online record or making new requests, rather than their family name and library barcode.

To allow for this change, the interlibrary loans webforms will not be available between 9:15-11 on Thursday 12 Sept.

For assistance during this time please contact the ILL office on 8344 5388 or ill-library@unimelb.edu.au